It’s time to take control of your calendar.
Feeling overwhelmed? It’s time to take control of your calendar. Find out what you should consider before you say “yes” to an opportunity, when you should squeeze something into your schedule, and what kind of calendar you should be using. Do you use any of these tips? Tell us at #WorkSmart.
After tripling in size this year, Instacart is putting the brakes on recruiting in 2016.
Instacart is putting the brakes on hiring. After tripling in size in 2015, the on-demand grocery delivery company has laid off 12 full-time recruiters as it rethinks its priorities for next year, Re/code reports.
Twitter banned a would-be London bomber’s account after he asked followers for target suggestions.
The evidence against would-be London bomber and his ex-wife wasn’t particularly difficult to find. The pair stockpiled explosives in their London home, and set up a Twitter account to ask for advice on which targets to bomb, The Guardian reports.
Mark Bittman has always thought of Purple Carrot as a food startup—but now he wonders if he needs to think of it as technology company, too.
From late spring to early summer, during the first days of my involvement with meal kit startup Purple Carrot, we fielded many questions about our “tech side.” These came primarily from a few influential Silicon Valley VCs who would directly ask questions like, “How are you using technology to make your startup more defensible?”
Sidecar ends its mobile delivery and ride-hailing service after a four-year fight.
Ride-hailing startup Sidecar has long been overshadowed by its rivals Uber and Lyft, both in number of customers and in institutional investment. After nearly four years of trying to differentiate itself, it has given up the fight.
2015 was a transformative year for online music. So what’s next?
In 2015, the streaming music market became a full-contact spectator sport.
KaloBios Pharmaceuticals had previously taken strategic investment from Shkreli.
The bad news keeps on coming for business associates of Martin Shrekli, the “bad boy” of pharmaceuticals who made a name for himself earlier this year when he hiked up the price of an AIDS drug from $13.50 to $750. Less than two weeks after it fired Shkreli as CEO, South San Francisco-based cancer drug research company KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. filed for bankruptcy.
Make your resolutions stick with these tips from those who know how to do it right.
Making resolutions is a popular holiday tradition, but keeping those resolutions past the first week in January is the hard part. Statistic Brain, using data from the University of Scranton, says while 45% of Americans regularly make New Year’s resolutions only 8% actually keep them. So, how do those 8% do it?
Here are some of the best tips from people who successfully keep their New Year’s resolutions:
The company will now join Google, Facebook in alerting victims of suspected state-sponsored hacks
Microsoft failed to notify more than 1,000 users that they were victims of a hacking attack that the company’s own investigators determined was sponsored by the Chinese government, according to Reuters.
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